April, 2013

30th April:• Delhi court acquitted
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984
anti-Sikh riots.• Pakistani court imposed a lifetime ban
on former President Pervez Musharraf from contesting
elections in Pakistan.• Joao Havelange has resigned as
honorary president of the world governing body after being
named in a report as having received bribes.• Additional
Solicitor General Haren Raval resigned from the post over
his controversy by telling the Supreme Court that CBI status
report on Coalgate was not shared with the government.

29th April:• Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI) sends nomination of Virat Kohli and
Sunil Gavaskar for Arjuna Award and Dhyanchand Award
respectively to Sports Ministry.• Syrian PM Wael al-Halqi
survives bomb attack in capital Damascus.• Goa launched a
digital Krishi Card for farmers to avail benefits like subsidies
and loans given by the state government.

28th April:• Saturn positioned itself
directly opposite the Sun and visible with the naked eye.•
Enrico Letta sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Italy.

27th April:• President Pranab Mukherjee
reappointed Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra for second term
in the state.• Sarabjit Singh continues to be in deep coma
and on ventilator support at a hospital in Lahore after being
brutally attacked by a group of prisoners.

26th April:• Anil Goswami will replace
RK Singh as new Home Secratary. He is the first bureaucrat from
the J&K cadre to be appointed home secretary.• Yash Chopra,
Rajesh Khanna and Asha Bhosale will be honored with the
prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Academy Award.

25th April:• A new keyboard layout
named as KALQ Keyboard developed at University of St Andrews,
USA for touch screen devices. • World Malaria Day is
observed.

24th April:• Legendary Playback Singer
Shamshad Begum died at her Mumbai residence at the age of 94.
• Liverpool's Luis Suarez has been banned for 10 games by the
English Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav
Ivanovic during EPL match at Anfield.• A block housing
garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh, killing
nearly 300 people and injuring more than a thousand.

23rd April:• Chris Gayle set a new
record for the fastest century in professional cricket by
reaching 100 off 30 balls in IPL match against Pune Warrior in
Bangalore. He also records the highest Twenty20 score of 175 not
out.• Manchester United won its record 20th English Premier
League title.• Police detained Sudipto Sen, the chairman of
Saradha group in Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly defrauded
thousands of depositors.

22nd April:• Earth Day is observed to
create awareness among the masses on environmental issues.•
Budget Session of Parliament resumes.• Horacio Cartes has
been elected as President in Paraguay.• Union Home ministry
approved 'Z' category security protection for Reliance
Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.• Abdul Hamid, the speaker
of Bangladesh's parliament has been elected as President of
Bangladesh.• Former chief justice and head of anti-rape law
panel JS Verma has died in Delhi, aged 80.

21st April:• National Civil Services
Day was observed across India.• Mathematical genius
Shakuntala Devi, known world’s fastest ‘human computer’ died at
a hospital in Bangalore following respiratory problems. She was
83.

20th April:• At least 150 people and
over seven thousands have died in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake
which hit southwestern China's Sichuan province.• Assam
State Government implemented the Assam Right to Public Service
Act 2012 in the state.• Sachin Tendulkar's wax statue
unveiled at the Sydney Cricket Ground.• Australian
all-rounder cricketer Shane Watson stepped down from the
position of Vice-Captain of the Australian test Cricket team.

19th April:• Universal Commodity
Exchange (UCX) started its operations and became the country’s
sixth commodity exchange to launch futures trading.• Time
magazine included Amir Khan in the list of 100 Most Influential
People in the world for 2013. He is also one of the seven who
were selected for a cover of their own in the prestigious
magazine.

18th April:• Islamabad High Court has
ordered the arrest of Gen Pervez Musharraf over his attempt to
impose house arrest on judges in March 2007.• The main
accused of German Bakery blast, Himayat Ali Baig has been given
death sentence. The blasts left 17 dead and 64 wounded at the
German Bakery on February 13, 2010.• Blast at a fertilizer
plant in central Texas killed 15 people, wounded more than 160
in America.• Aruna M. Bahuguna appointed as Special Director
General of the CRPF. She is the first woman to be appointed for
that position.

17th April:• A blast near the BJP
office in Malleshwaram, Bangalore left 16 people injured
including eight policemen.• Telugu writer Dr Ravuri
Bharadwaja selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the
year 2012.

16th April:• Two bomb explosions around
2.45pm killing three people and injuring over 140 in popular
Boston Marathon. • A massive 7.9 Richter scale earthquake
struck southeast Iran near the border with Pakistan, which
killed at least 40 people in Iran and 35 in Pakistan.• Gold
price in India hit the lowest level in more than 18 months
reaching 25,270 rupees per 10 gram.

15th April:• President on a three day
visit to North-East India.• India celebrates Bihu, Pongal
and Vaisakhi in different parts of the country.• Adam
Johnson announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
fiction for his book “The Orphan Master’s Son”.• Nicolas
Maduro was elected as the new President of Venezuela.

14th April:• Famous Industrialist,
Known as the country's 'takeover specialist' Rama Prasad Goenka
passed away in Kolkata. He was the Chairman Emeritus of the RPG
Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate.•
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on week long visit to USA and
Canada, working on a series of steps to attract at least $20
billion in new investment in India.

12th April:• The Supreme Court reject a
plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment for
Delhi bomb blast accused terrorist Deviderpal Singh Bhullar.
President of India already reject the plea.• Veteran
Bollywood actor Pran, 92 has been honoured with the Dadasaheb
Phalke Award. The award consists of the Swara Kamal medal, a
shawl and a cash prize.

11th April:• Deputy Chairman of Rajya
Sabha, PJ Kurien elected as the Chairman of the Asian Forum of
Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)on the
73rd Executive Committee Meeting of AFPPD at Bangkok.

10th April:• Sahara group chief Subrata
Roy appeared before SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of
India), which had summoned Sahara in refund case of an estimated
Rs 24,000 crore.• Delhi court ordered to re-investigated
1984 anti-Sikh riots against Congress leader and former Union
minister Jagdish Tytler for his role, dismissing CBI closure
report of 2009 that had given a clean chit to Tytler.

9th April:• A magnitude 6.1 earthquake
killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in southern Iran.
• Five U.N. peacekeepers from India working for the U.N. mission
in South Sudan were killed in an ambush by attackers in the
state of Jonglei.

8th April:• Britain's 'Iron Lady' and
only woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher died following a
stroke at the age of 87. She led her Conservative Party for 11
years and held office from May 1979 to November 1990.

6th April:• Arvind Kejriwal breaks
15-day-long fast on the issue of water and electricity in Delhi.
• Annamalai University VC M. Ramanathan suspended for financial
irregularities.• Suicide attack in a Iraqi city of Baqouba
kills 25 in a political rally.

5th April:• Executive Co-Chairman of
Infosys S Gopalakrishnan has been elected as the President of
the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).•
President Pranab Mukherjee presented Padma Awards to 108
personalities. Cricketer Rahul Dravid, woman boxer MC Mary Kom
and late Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna was conferred the Padma
Bhushan Award in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

4th April:• 72 dead and over 36 injured
as under-construction building collapse in Thane, Mumbai.

3rd April:• President Pranab Mukherjee
has given his assent to the anti-rape bill. This law has the
provision of life term and death sentence for rape convicts.